Able Quote by John Milius

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

— Bei Dao

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

— Tennessee Williams

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

— David Hackworth

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

— Dani Shapiro

Writing was always something I had. I need this to survive when I'm empty, and losing my mind. My pain is in the words…

— Jeremy Limn

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

— Evangeline Lilly

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

— Rachel Joyce

For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

— Pablo Neruda

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

— Paul Auster

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

— J. K. Rowling